While your family is boasting over 4th of July parades, bonfires and fireworks, you might be silently praying that they’ll all agree to go somewhere public rather than invite over your friends and family on the 4th. Holiday housekeeping is the easiest cleaning you’ll ever do because you don’t have to do all of it!

If you haven’t heard about the new Purex Complete 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets yet, prepare to be amazed! I’m a Purex Insider, which means that Purex sent me their revolutionary new laundry product to try out before it was available in stores.

While I fully believe in taking a couple of days off during the week, you may or may not be the type of person who can handle what happens to your home when you’re not in control of the clutter for those two days. So what do you do? What do you do when laziness strikes and the clutter gets out of control?

What I’ve learned in the meantime of raising these three girls is that I don’t have to wait till the preteen years. Children are actually capable of cleaning at a very young age.

Welcome to the first edition of Housekeeping Heaven with Courtney! This week, you’ll get to know her a little bit, before she begins taking you on a housekeeping and cleaning extravaganza each week here on Homemaker Barbi!

From the most commonplace household item to the truly bizarre, here are 22 unusual things to wash in the dishwasher:

Frugal homemaking causes us to find ways to eliminate wasting supplies and, in turn, wasting our hard earned money.  Commercial cleaners which come in spray bottles can be pricey and seem to stop spraying before the cleaner is used up.  Don’t toss that spray bottle of cleaner when it stops spraying, though.  It’s not really [...]

 
 
 
The number one reason people give for why they can’t (or don’t) clean their homes is that they don’t have enough time.  Understandably so, since we live in a world where more is expected of us than ever before.  We’re required to balance home, family, work and personal tasks every day.  Luckily, cleaning and maintaining [...]